Isaiah:8

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* And Jehovah said to me , Take thee a great tablet , and write thereon with a man 's style , concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz . * And I took unto me to witness , sure witnesses , Urijah the priest , and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah . * And I came near to the prophetess , and she conceived and bore a son ; and Jehovah said unto me , Call his name , Maher-shalal-hash-baz . * For before the lad knoweth to cry , My father ! and , My mother ! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria . * And Jehovah spoke again to me , saying , * Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly , and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah , * therefore behold , the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river , strong and many , the king of Assyria and all his glory ; and he shall mount up over all his channels , and go over all his banks : * and he shall pass through Judah ; he shall overflow it and go further , he shall reach even to the neck ; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land , O Immanuel ! * Rage , ye peoples , and be broken in pieces ! And give ear , all ye distant parts of the earth : Gird yourselves , and be broken in pieces ; gird yourselves , and be broken in pieces ! * Settle a plan , and it shall come to nought ; speak a word , and it shall not stand : for �God is with us . * For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand , and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people , saying , * Ye shall not say , Conspiracy , of everything of which this people saith , Conspiracy ; and fear ye not their fear , and be not in dread . * Jehovah of hosts , him shall ye sanctify ; and let him be your fear , and let him be your dread . * And he will be for a sanctuary ; and for a stone of stumbling , and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel , for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * And many among them shall stumble , and fall , and be broken , and snared , and taken . * Bind up the testimony , seal the law among my disciples . * And I will wait for Jehovah , who hideth his face from the house of Jacob ; and I will look for him . * Behold , I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel , from Jehovah of hosts , who dwelleth in mount Zion . * And when they shall say unto you , Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers , who chirp and who mutter , [say ,] Shall not a people seek unto their God ? [Will they go ] for the living unto the dead ? * To the law and the testimony ! If they speak not according to this word , for them there is no daybreak . * And they shall pass through it , hard pressed and hungry ; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry , they will fret themselves , and curse their king and their God , and will gaze upward : * and they will look to the earth ; and behold , trouble and darkness , gloom of anguish ; and they shall be driven into thick darkness .

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